Google Maps gives bird's eye view of phallic field on P.E.I.
Shane Ross · CBC News · Posted: Nov 15, 2020 5:31 PM AT
A Stratford, P.E.I., property owner has taken manscaping to a whole new level.
Jamie Rix cut part of an overgrown soybean field into the shape of a 243-metre
penis, now captured on Google Maps in all its glory.
Rix said it started as an innocent crop circle about 18 months ago.
"Then I made a longer cut so I could drive down toward the end of the thing and
then it started to take shape and someone said, 'Why don't you make it into a
giant Johnson?' and I said, 'Why not. Challenge accepted,' and away I went."
Rix bought the land in 2009 and it has since become a family jewel. It is zoned
for residential, but he said he's not sure he has the "tolerance" to go
through the red tape of developing it.
He said the image is partly a statement of protest, more against the federal
government which is why he pointed it west toward Ottawa.
"The government doesn't seem to have much of a plan beyond four years and the
next election. That's my feeling anyway. They'll say or do anything to get
re-elected."
Rix said there hasn't been much reaction, because people can't see it from the
ground even though it is surrounded by a walking trail.
"People who do see it, or I show a picture to, they just think it's great, they
laugh," he said. "I think if you're offended by anything that's just a choice.
"
Kept it from wife
Rix said he kept the artwork from his wife until about a year after he did it.
"She hasn't heard or seen or thought much about it," he said. "I don't think
she'd like to be associated with it."
Now that the field has been exposed, he might turn it into something more
useful.
"Now that it's on Google Maps, I could probably trim it to look more like a run
way. Maybe someone will land there in an emergency."
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